Mexican Creation Stories
How was the world created? Where do people come from?
This beautiful infographic from Alma Mexico tells the creation story of 6 Mexican Indigenous nations and those of other peoples from around the world.
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From Mexico to the World and From the World to Mexico
Did you know that both chocolate and vanilla originated in Mexico?
Not included in the infographic is domesticated turkey, cotton, peanuts (disputed), chewing gum and a few others.
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“Hawaiian Troubadour” by Hubert Vos, 1898
Laura Aguilar
Aguilar is an American photographer born in 1959. Her work is primarily focused on the three ‘marked’ aspects of her life. She is a lesbian, she is obese and she is latina.
Her photograph work deals with these issues fairly obviously, or at least, her readily visible ‘issues’. This style of work may seem quite simple at first glance. She crouches in frame alongside desolate southwestern American landscapes, the folds and bulges of her body on show. It’s a clear indication of an awareness (perhaps not an acceptance) of her body.
I love these images. They are sincere, heartbreaking and all too familiar. Aguilar is a woman trying to visualise her body in a way that society just won’t allow; the only solution is to void her ‘self’ and become the subject of her own work, camouflaged as another rock, another mound of earth in yet another Ansel Adams rip-off.
Whereas in the work of the similar artist, Ana Mendieta, in which her body became embedded in the earth; Aguilar’s body is refused such security. Her body doesn’t ‘blend’ into the backdrop, despite the similarities of shapes. She is on show. Her flesh contrasts with the stone and water all too clearly.
The Ghetto is Public Policy
“One retort that people often make when discussing the history of racism is “We should not dwell on the past.” It’s an opportunistic claim—no one looks at July 4 and says “We should not dwell on the past.” But more to the point, this is not the distant past. The men and women who suffered at the hands of the FHA and the racist aspects of New Deal legislation are very much alive today. Furthermore, their children are alive and the effects of that policy on the country are fairly obvious. We know what we want to know. We believe the ghetto is manifestation of individual will and amorphous culture values because that is what we would prefer to think. It’s not so much that we don’t want to dwell on the past, so much as we want to choose our past.”
Unknown Photographer
The first day of school, Portugal, 1936
(Source: luzfosca, via muhself-deactivated20150929)